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Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore

Title

Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore

Creator

Gore, George, 1826-1909

Date

1894

Identifier

GFF 9/32

Subject

Description

Handwritten letter from George Gore from Institute of Scientific Research 67, Broad Street, Birmingham to George F. Fitzgerald, dated March 19th 1894. Gore thanks Fitzgerald for responding to a enquiry and praises Fitzgerald for his statement "that the mechanical energies of molecules of different gases are equal". 1p.


Transcription:
Dear Professor Fitzgerald, Thank you very much for the note you have been so kind as to send me reflecting my enquiry in the Philosophical magazine of this month.

Although I have read much on the physics of gases, and the statement that the mechanical energies of molecules of different gases are equal is one which I would certainly have noted, I have no recollection of ever having met with it, and I would much like to see it in print. Such a statement is of so very fundamental a character that I think it ought, like Avogadro's Law, to be explicitly expressed in simple words in every textbook of physics and monograph on gases. Your article in "Science Progress" appears to me originally suggestive and very interesting.
Yours Truly,
G. Gore

Professor Fitzgerald

Source

RDS Library and Archives GFF Collection of Letters

Contributor

Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent

Rights

Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.

Relation

RDS Science Archive

Format

Manuscript

Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

1870-1901

Collection

George Francis Fitzgerald Letters

Citation

Gore, George, 1826-1909, “Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from G. Gore,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 11, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/2346.

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